Resolution 4 : Health Care in Danger: Continuing to protect the delivery of health care together | Power of humanity: Red Cross Red Crescent

State

Name, position and email of the focal person

Ingrid Schøyen
Senior Adviser
Section for Humanitarian Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

1. What legislative, regulatory and practical measures have you put in place and implemented domestically to ensure the protection of the wounded and sick, health-care personnel and facilities, medical transport, as well as their identification (including through the distinctive emblems)?

What about the measures to ensure the violations of international law related to the protection of health-care delivery are effectively sanctioned? Which ministry, government agency, legislative or regulatory organ has been responsible for implementing these measures?

2. What concrete actions have you conducted to collect and analyze data related to violence against the wounded and sick, health care personnel and facilities, and medical transport? How did you use this information to develop practical measures to address such violence?

3. What actions has your government undertaken to enhance the understanding by health care personnel of their rights and responsibilities resulting from applicable law?

What specific measures has your government taken to ensure that health care personnel can safely fulfil their medical duties in line with their professional code of ethics?

Ingrid Schøyen
Senior Adviser
Section for Humanitarian Affairs
Ministry of Foreign Affairs

4. How have you been cooperating across various Ministries of Government, and with other relevant stakeholders, including the Red Cross Red Crescent Societies, health-care professional associations and civil society, in your country to increase the safety of provision of and access to health care?

5. How do you ensure that the protection of the wounded and sick and healthcare services is integrated into training, doctrine and operational orders and procedures for your armed and security forces whether at the national level or in the context of international operations they are contributing to?

Information on The Law on Armed Conflict, as well as the Geneva Conventions, is a mandatory part of the basic soldier education in the Norwegian Armed Forces as well as in the curriculums in the Norwegian Staff College and War Academies. In addition to the theoretical education, compliance to these principles are being trained during exercises in Norway, as well as an integrated part of the predeployment training for all Norwegian Armed Forces before deploying to international operations. During deployment, Norwegian forces always include education- and training on The Law of Armed Conflict as well as the Geneva Conventions when they participate in capacity building of local armed groups (for example in Iraq). Hence, the protection of the wounded and the sick and healthcare services is in fact integrated into training, doctrine and operational orders and procedures for the Norwegian Armed Forces in national- and international operations.

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